sal castanedo, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you, sal. >>> hundreds of cashes in san francisco have been pulled out of service because from insurance lapped -- lapsed. the agency requires every taxi to carry $1 million in liability insurance to operate. on tuesday, the policy lapped for more than 500 owner/operated -- owner high pressure operated cabs. sf's mta's spokesperson said this should be resolved in a few days. >>> two regions in the bay area are the strongest job markets in the country, the south bay posted a nearly 4% increase for jobs during the 12 months that ended in june and the region that includes san francisco, san mateo, and marin is second. with a jump of more than 3.5%. the east bay is more than 1.3% and analysts credit the tech industry for most of the job growth. >>> america's cup has moved in. we'll take you inside the new headquarters for the event and tell you what's being done to preen for racing later on this -- prepare for racing later on this month. >>> let's take a look outside. it will be anot

let's go over to sal cass castanedo. we're -- let's go over to sal castanedo. >> there is a truck with its brakes lock under on the shoulder. you can see traffic is loving -- is moving along very well. the fire department was there and now the chp is there on the shoulder. it may be causing a little bit of a distraction. as you head to the bay bridge taupe, the traffic there is going to be heavy this morning. in fact, it's been a lot busier getting into the city and been crowded in the last ten minutes or so. if you are driving on the commute between hayward, 80 southbound. >>> a summer day in the forecast that will be injoyable to most. it is slowly burning off. temperatures, holding in the 50s. haven't really budged a whole lot in the sonoma valley, upper 40s to low 50s. you may want an extra layer today. by about noontime, low 60s at the coast and low 60s right in the bay. for the afternoon, like yesterday, low 60s with partly to mostly cloudy skies at the coast. 70s around the bay. 80s to 90s. we do have a cooling tr

we're gonna hand it over to sal castanedo. sal this. >> it's pretty light today. i think that a lot of people perhaps are taking the day off or it seems that way anyway. let's take a look at the toll plaza. it's light here as welcoming across into san francisco. if you are driving -- trying to get into the city at the very least, you will have fewer cars to deal with than you did yesterday. this is a look now at interstate 880 in the coliseum area. northbound and southbound traffic looking good. perhaps you are taking a fright out of the oakland airport. you won't have to worry about traffic there. a little bit further down, union city and fremont on interstate 880, that traffic looks good. if you look amount the entire bay area, there is not a lot of red on these maps. it looks good. let's go to rosemary. >>> good morning to you. our cooling trend will continue into the weekend, plenty of gray sky out there. temperatures holing in the 50s. a little bit of mist and drizzle falling over parts of the bay area. windshield wipers are moving, we do have delays for some

sal castanedo with that. hey, sal. >> hey, alex.d morning to you you know, traffic is -- to you. you know, traffic is doing well. there's one spot it's not doing well. that's on the peninsula. let's go to a live picture. northbound 101, a travel spot has a couple of spots there. these are live pictures. you can see how slow this is. northbound 101 backed up all the way into palo alto. the alternate route that you can take is el camino real or 2 0. but just looking at this it will be a while before this is cleared. again it's a graving spill looking a -- blocking a couple of lanes. this has been a decent commute. the motoring -- metering rights are off -- metering lights. let's go to steve. >>> a lot of low clouds and fog for some. you won't be able to see them coming up. but the main message. especially federal sierra -- especially sierra nevada could be looking for cloud activity. that meansal more -- that means that -- fairfield, concord, livermore, hayward, redwood city in there. it looks like over the next couple of days, the lo

speaking of traffic right now, we're gonna check in with sal castanedo. i do know use these to monitor. but you have other ways. >> that's right. for many years, we did the traffic without the sensors. some of the sensors do work after the investigation showed which ones are reliable. we know which ones are not working. and for those, we use other sources like newschopper2 and for those who call in and live cameras and data thatwy. so we try, obviously, to get the information information possible and we know where the -- best information possible and we know where the best information is. as a matter of fact, why don't we do traffic now. that's pretty easy. highway 4 is a little bit slow coming up through bay point. that's also slow in antioch and pittsburg. bay bridge, on the other hand, has been light today. we had a little bit of a backup when the metering lights went off in the 6:00 hour. and just speaking of the road sensors and the maps, caltrans data looking at some slow livermore traffic coming in from the tracy area from whipple road in union cit

. >> we have a secret weapon, sal castanedo. let's check in with him. >> thank you, mike.ffic is gonna be a little bit slow still. we've seen a lot of improvement. we're gonna start off with the santa cruz mountains. a lot of people were late because of earlier problems on 17 getting down to the -- getting down to the valley. give yourself extra time. bay bridge has improved. it's backed up to the middle of the parking lot. >>> and we're also looking at interstate 880. it really has not been slow past the coliseum as it normally is. right now, it's a good time to use 880 up to oakland. it's 8:57. let's go to steve. >>> well, some fog, a lot more today than yesterday. and also some -- well, clouds coming up from ard and -- from arizona. this also throw as little tropical mix in -- throws a little tropical mix in. >> and that's four report this morring. we'll see you the next -- and that's our report for this morning. we will see you the next time news breaks. >> we're always here four at ktvu.com. 're on timeout leo! ktvu -- we're always here for you at ktvu.com. some thing